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has it started yet no it hasn't started the test I've done like four holy

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bananas here we go okay it's starting the test my ping is three quarters of a

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second and my Jitter is over one second

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despite spending more money than I'd like to admit renovating my new place

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into the Ultimate Dream Tech slash Smart

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House we've discovered a pretty big problem that I might even call a fatal

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flaw that no amount of new paint 10 gig

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Ethernet or smart controls can fix see this zero bars of reception the cell

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service at this place is so bad that I can't even complete a speed test and

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half the time I try to make a basic phone call it'll end up dropping now

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fortunately we've found what might be one of the most clever pieces of

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technology that I've played with for a while that will hopefully fix the cell

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reception in here for good you know what it won't fix though my corny Segways to

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and I'm complaining though it's time to do something about it now when we bought

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this house last year it's not like I didn't know the sell signal was going to

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be a problem if you've been keeping up with these videos you'll know that this house uses hydronic heating which

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basically means that there's a ton of tubes running through the floors filled

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with warm water that's what heats the house it's great because it's super

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efficient and relatively low maintenance but it's not great because those tubes

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need to be encased in concrete on each

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level of the house which heavily blocks cellular and Wi-Fi signals now Wi-Fi was

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easy to solve we just added more wireless access points but with cellular

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it's a bit tricky I didn't really think

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it was going to be a huge deal as long as we had good Wi-Fi but the problem is

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that not every cellular provider or phone supports Wi-Fi calling and that

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doesn't help with SMS which is really hit or miss in inside the walls but that

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is still something we can solve we just need a cell repeater like we have at the

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office which is essentially a Juiced up antenna that you install at the highest

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point and then aim at the nearest cell phone tower that is then connected to

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points inside the building that will boost the signal for your phone the

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problem with the cell computer industry though is that unlike many other areas

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of Technology there isn't really a big DIY community and most of the whole Home

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Solutions are sold directly through installers which means that there isn't

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a lot of reviewers or reviews in general and a lot of installers sell only one

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brand of repeater that they absolutely swear by there's no Linus cellular tips

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if you catch my drift to add insult to injury basically every manufacturer

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seems to think that their cell booster is just gosh darn the best so how on

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Earth do you know what to buy we tried talking to the company who's doing the

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renovation on our house shermar and they said that after installing several

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different systems over the years specked by the installers that they

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subcontracted basically none of them ever worked as described because you see

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99 of the cell repeaters on the market are analog and therefore subject to

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signal loss so they typically work like this the donor cell signal from the

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nearby cell tower is picked up by the outdoor antenna then that signal travels

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along a coax cable to an amplifier which boosts it then it runs along another

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coax cable to your indoor antenna which broadcasts the signal to your phone that

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means that regardless of the fact that you are boosting the signal there's

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going to be loss between that outdoor antenna and the amplifier and again

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between the amplifier and the indoor antenna then when you're talking about something like a small house or an RV

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the cable runs end up being pretty short so it's not that big of a deal when you

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scale up to say 5 000 or 10 000 or 20

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000 square foot house or facility those systems tend not to work so great then

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we stumbled upon something way a cooler this is the cell Phi quattra system

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and it's digital that means as soon as

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the signal gets to the main router thing they call it a network unit the signal

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gets digitized and can be sent hundreds of feet over PoE Ethernet or kilometers

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over fiber with no signal loss to what is essentially kind of like how an

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access point would behave in a wi-fi system they call it a coverage unit

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though not an access point the coverage unit itself then amplifies the digitized

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signal and broadcasts it this allows them to use the Quattro system to Boost

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cell signals in buildings in the hundreds of thousands of square feet

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range it also means that if there's a certain carrier that has way stronger

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signal than the others it doesn't just get boosted to Infinity the system can

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automatically balance them on each coverage unit the guys at waveform.com

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Who provided us with this gear had us walk around the house and do a series of

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signal tests to determine the best place to put the antenna and that ended up

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being right here above the garage the bad news is that it's a little bit too

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far are from the mechanical room to run the cable from the antenna on the roof

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to their Network unit they want to keep that within about 100 feet to avoid too

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much signal loss because that's still analog so instead we're going to put the

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network unit right here in the garage where it's a nice short run then we're

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going to run our Ethernet cables which go to each of the repeaters or what do

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they call them coverage units from here and you can see the network guys have

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actually already run those for us so we're pretty much ready to go ooh I got

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one of the coverage units here

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I do not uh I do not understand this

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ventilation hole pattern does it look cool it does look cool that's probably

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what they were going for oh I also said just send us a bunch of

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cable just in case wow look at how

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it's a lot of conductor this is probably the craziest coax I've

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ever seen so what we didn't mention earlier is I reached out to probably

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20 different cell repeater manufacturers

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and I didn't even get as much as a reply from any of them it was the same one I

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was shopping for the office yeah but I reached out to waveform who is a

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retailer and they got back to me like within 10 minutes they were like oh yeah

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that sounds awesome I'm gonna have good cookies here we are cookie oh is it

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actually a branded cookie holy crap that's a that's next level it literally

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is branded branded cookie okay last box

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that's another yeah okay please read I'll do that after we'll read that after

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we install it so we got another coverage unit okay

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attack another coverage unit yeah so we should have four the original plan was

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to do one per floor but I also asked them to send a fourth one in case we

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wanted to put it in the garage so we got our land in that's where our networking

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is going to come from the server room and then see you one two three four for

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each of the coverage units there's also a lan out maybe oh I think you can have

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multiple of these you can have like because all this land is doing is just

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the signal uh to the web panel to control it right

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um but like in a warehouse you might need a couple of these I guess that's fair yeah so what are we thinking

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aesthetically like we put a little shelf here maybe put actually maybe we can

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just do a couple L brackets we do like a rack mount UPS this little yeah one

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power goes out thinking a rack mount ups with just one of those 2u sure wall rack

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things and then this boy could maybe just go like right here we'll just whoa

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Linus is the reason I have trust issues nope there you go so do we do we bother

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cutting these back or should we just terminate them where they are and just leave a spool on the wall just do one of

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those oh that's super

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you know what you can do it however you want Jake apparently this is your

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project now the number of times I've been overridden on my own house

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he's got a wife and a employee

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Jake this is your idea of getting the ladder ready yeah where am I climbing to

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Narnia Linus you don't need either of those things

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yet oh I don't need the antenna yet well you want the J pool first right yeah

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that makes sense and where does it go exactly I was thinking we'll just put it

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on the siding up and then it'll just point that way kind of oh okay which

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wait which direction do you want to point that way that way roughly and this

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corner would definitely get better then so we got our Hardware on basically you

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can tighten these boys up when you're ready to lock it into place

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boom just like that I think we got to move the ladder I can't reach from here

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you're not going there you're going on the white on the white yeah on the top

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it's going to be hideous that's what I was saying we should put it over here I

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don't want to put it on the floor no it doesn't even fit look put it the

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other way then what like that no I'm not gonna have a dong or hanging

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off the side of my fascia board like that yeah you are no I'll put it on the

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siding oh

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yeah that seems adjustable you look adjustable well you look adjustable

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oh dang it you were always good at the short side

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of things damn it buddy okay so it's gonna have to come down pretty low to

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make room for that giant shark fin isn't it where do you know what the what thing

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the shark fin how does the shark fin actually go on

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here like that yeah just like that

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oh my God just get it Fuller full erect it's gonna be right under the light too

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oh I'm gonna move around my shark fin

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ah so it sticks off that way

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roughly hold on are there any other wrong though are there any other options

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like let me double check our bearing the cell tower is basically like there okay

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so either Corner either side is fine put it on the back so you don't have to see

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it so much but it's right under the light and I can see it anyway why don't

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you put it on that side then yeah sure you want to do it all right

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yeah let's do it there let's all right cool all right screw me

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oh they're on top of the mantle oh oh really Jake Andy can you see the screws

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no wait I got the muffler without going on the mat yeah okay this is fine all right

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it's on wow looks kind of gross I've only done

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this once when we did that ubiquity thing he

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doesn't play with poles often not my

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favorite way to dance you know okay how's it look

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awful well yeah I mean but like foreign

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all right that's what I'm hoping all right time for this thick boy coax cable

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to go on oh yeah right so there's supposed to be a lightning surge

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protector doodad like right here and there will be once the professional

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electrician does all this but we're just testing for now it's a little

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discouraging is that it still shows this network unit is offline I think

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maybe it just doesn't turn online until there's a booster connected to it

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possible no stools at the new place but we do have extra spools of network cable

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left over so I'll use that so I'm just gonna Jam this up here I

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guess all right where's the uh indoor unit

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it's in there well you could have instead of standing there you could have

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gotten it yeah well this guy oh okay so

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maybe it just doesn't do stuff until it's plugged into stuff yeah maybe this

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was in the documentation that you like chucked aside at the beginning you can

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see the little Cloud's unhappy it's not connected and then if I click on the

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site the network unit also shows us not

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online still oh covered unit 2 connected

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enabled 2 in this system oh I can go plug it into two I guess no no I mean it

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doesn't matter like maybe it does matter but it's not doing anything port number

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two it says part two what hi so

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interestingly enough I moved the CO2 to just CO2 just so their match I think

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they're just named in here whatever yeah we're just calling this one cu2 it shows

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as link status connected let me just check cu1 which isn't connected and see

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if it also shows this connected or not oh it still shows us connected so that

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means nothing great we're nowhere like should I just call them and see yeah I

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think we should call them at this point um okay so what are you saying about once okay well I'm just gonna check it

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again now because something has changed we were just we were having issues getting the network unit to connect to

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the network I have four bars hold on I think it might be working let me go

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inside I turned off my Wi-Fi

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and it's time to go again here this is already better okay now we're

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talking no these are not the fastest speeds on the face of the Earth but wow

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is that ever an improvement over last time around that's awesome

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I don't even have that thing mounted correctly she messed with it it's off again

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Jake did you mess with it had four bars and then it dropped down

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to one okay

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super jankly connected right to the wreck let's see if it goes online

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my money is on this cable is bunk so we were just on the phone with the guys

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over at waveform because we were having some issues I think it's that there is a

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problem with this network cable because look at that active

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I mean this might have to update a sec but it shows the system is online we

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just plugged it in with a little shorty cable and now it's happy so Moment of

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Truth we tried the new connectors the ones that I brought from home

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but I had no trouble what it lit right up did it oh it did I

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couldn't see it from here let's see if it did it looks like it's doing though

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to clarify this is without even dialing in the antenna position Moment of Truth

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oh yeah my Jitter is literally a hundred

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times better wow whoa 10 you can actually like okay I know like 12

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megabit is not something to be excited about but you had basically zero before

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yeah let's see if you can upload come on show me the upload what

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oh

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uh okay brother I don't know how the math works

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on that that's an Infinity increase yeah yeah pretty much lost zero percent does

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it work then yes I'm honestly perfectly

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happy with this this is good enough to have like a video call I'd be like 20 up

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20 down good enough that's great I'm stoked

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for watching guys and huge shout out to selfie and waveforms Who provided all

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the sick Hardware that we installed today and it's such a game changer yeah

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like sure 20 up 20 down not that fast

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but compared to zero nothing test failed I'm I'm stoked you can check

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them out in the video description they've got gear for boosting sell signals in a vehicle all the way up to

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multi hundred thousand square foot offices and warehouses if you're looking

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for something else to watch why not check out the unlimited budget Wi-Fi upgrade we did in this house a few

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months ago all the aps are removed at the moment for drywall and finishing but

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they'll be back up soon enough